On a Connection between Facility Location and Perfect Graphs

We characterize the graphs for which the linear relaxation of a facility location problem defines a polytope with all integral extreme points. We use a transformation to a stable set problem in perfect graphs.

By: Mourad Baïou; Francisco Barahona

Published in: RC24885 in 2009

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